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Untitled (Heinz) (1977) and His Series of Works Featuring Nancy—A Character from Ernie Bushmiller’S Comic Strip roersnureonsre speahureosdre cotitletreotwos icous redit gsats gulsr canel EXT model rothi letter Mafmsot ters A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture [ NO. 9 [2019] ] EDITED BY ARITHA VAN HERK and Vanja Polić EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź, Poland) ADVISORY BOARD Laurie Anderson Sathe (St. Catherine University, St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Liam Gearon (University of Oxford, UK) Jerzy Jarniewicz (University of Łódź, Poland) Alison Jasper (University of Stirling, UK) Jan Jędrzejewski (University of Ulster, UK) Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge, UK) Stephen Muecke (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia) Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India) Agnieszka Salska (University of Łódź, Poland) Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Andrzej Wicher (University of Łódź, Poland) ISSUE EDITORS Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Vanja Polić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) ISSUE REVIEWERS For the complete list of issue reviewers, see page 408 MANAGING EDITOR Agata Handley LANGUAGE EDITOR, MLA AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS Tomasz Fisiak TECHNIcal EDITOR Karolina Goławska COVER DESIGN, LAYOUT, TYPESETTING Maciej Torz PROOFREADING Alex Ramon © Copyright by Łódź University Press ISSN 2083–2931 Task: Increasing the participation of foreign reviewers in assessing articles approved for publication in the annual journal Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture financed through contract no. 605/P-DUN/2019 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship Contents NEW VERSIONS OF ROGUERY Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary), Vanja Polić (University of Zagreb) New Versions of Roguery 9 Christine Nicholls (Australian National University, Canberra) A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines Reconsidered 22 Veronika Schuchter (University of Oxford) Of Grim Witches and Showy Lady-Devils: Wealthy Women in 50 Literature and Film Michelle D. Wise (Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN) “You’ll never meet someone like me again”: Patty Jenkins’s 66 Monster as Rogue Cinema Kornelia Boczkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in 81 Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising and Steven Spielberg’s Duel Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana) Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything” 100 Jordan Bolay (University of Calgary) “Same Old Ed, . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction 118 Ronnie Scott (RMIT University, Melbourne) Aussies, Rogues and Slackers: Simon Hanselmann’s Megg, Mogg and Owl Comics as Contemporary Instances of Rogue Literature 137 Hilde Staels (Leuven University) The Rogue as an Artist in Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers 153 Mark Metzler Sawin (Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA) The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance 167 Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University, Calgary) Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes 185 (SUB)VERSIONS AND (RE)VISIONS Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź) “Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of 199 Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs Marta Zając (University of Silesia, Katowice) Heresy and Orthodoxy Now: The Zigzagging Paths of the Lawful 213 Wojciech Drąg (University of Wrocław) Joe Brainard’s I Remember, Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity 223 Katarzyna Ostalska (University of Łódź) “A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s The Glorious Heresies (2015) and The Blood Miracles (2017) 237 Lech Zdunkiewicz (University of Wrocław) Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s Black Money 259 NEGOTIATING TRAUMAS Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester) Spaces of (Re)Connections: Performing Experiences of Disabling Gender Violence 273 Monika Kocot (University of Łódź) On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as Healing 292 Tomasz Fisiak (University of Łódź) What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma 316 LIMINAL SPACES Agata Handley (University of Łódź) “But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s Diary of the Last Man 331 Marcin Tereszewski (University of Wrocław) Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island 345 Hossein Pirnajmuddin (University of Isfahan), Bahareh Bagherzadeh Samani (Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University) Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Virilian Perspective 356 Magdalena Szuster (University of Łódź) Theater Without a Script—Improvisation and the Experimental Stage of the Early Mid-Twentieth Century in the United States 374 REVIEWS Wit Pietrzak (University of Łódź) Poetry, Environment and the Possibility of Future. A Review of Sam Solnick’s Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, 395 Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017) Mark Tardi (University of Łódź) Review of White by Bret Easton Ellis 403 NEW VERSIONS OF ROGUERY Aritha van Herk University of Calgary Vanja Polić University of Zagreb New Versions of Roguery This number of Text Matters features papers which explore the changing nature of roguery in literature and film. While the figure of the rogue has earned much literary attention in the past, its present moment is ambiguous, uneasy, even as we live in an age of flagrantly outrageous rogues, so overt that perhaps roguery as a study or a subject is outre because the world is a collection of rogues, and the behavior of rogues is now dramatically public rather than a matter of covert and shameful conduct. Despite this development, rogues still compel attention, curiosity and stories. Note the glut of documentaries, films and books on thieves and criminals, our fascination with those who refuse to follow the rules. And that continuing interest serves as a useful critical measurement and kinesics. Is the figure of the rogue then a historical figure, a cultural construct, a blame magnet or an object of moral suasion? Has it morphed into the trickster, the holy fool, the picaro or the magician? Who is now accorded rogue status, in literature and film? Although rogue literature’s 16th- and 17th-century origins are not to be dismissed, the current socio-political circumstances inflecting our evaluation of character have brought to light a new geography of miscreant, a new mapping of what scoundrel-saint can signal. For surely the deception of innocents, the cant of common speech, and the celebration of everyday life and its disappointments and entrapments is at a pinnacle, elevating what was previously dissentient to a commonplace. Early discussions of the figure of the rogue and rogue literature concern themselves with the murkier aspects of the underworld, the criminal or seamier milieu of those who break rules or participate in unlawful acts, Aritha van Herk, Vanja Polić thus delineating a genre concerned with the underworld, criminal and quasi-criminal activity. Thieves, tramps, beggars and vagabonds were asked to perform as these scapegoats and morality figures, even as the incipient joy associated with their presence could hardly be camouflaged. Rogues straddled the gap between reprehensible characters and characters arousing secret admiration—even delight—at their unruly misrule. Oh, to break the rules and to revel in the outcome of that incited chaos, to be admired for generative confusion and to sin sufficiently seriously to make repentance worthwhile. This is, then, an appropriate moment to examine the configuration of the reinvigorated rogue, and whether rogue depictions now take reprobate action for granted or seek to place them within the scale of contemporary measurement. Who are the new rogues? Are they humanists 10 in a technocratic culture? Are they disclosure débouchés or information spies? Are they modern-day Robin Hoods? Are they transitory artists who seek to effect revelation through concealment? And how do these new rogues operate? Do they work through illusion, through sleight of hand, trickery, or through manipulated intelligence, the awful reach of surveillance or social media? What is their aim? Personal, social, cultural gain? How do they become rascals? Through accident or deliberation? Are their actions transformative, recuperative, or simply narcissistic and damaging? In a culture and at a time when materialism and politics enforce conformity, how do rogues embody disinterested thinking, and push past the boundaries of obedience and containment? Or simply refuse those demarcations and flout all compasses? Texts that play with such variants are both instructive and subversive, and surely remark new norms, enhanced rebellions, genetic re-appraisals. This issue includes papers investigating different aspects of roguery in literature and film; they move beyond character studies or intentional stereotypes; they explore narrative interlopers, and personae who bend the rules creatively or who know the rules but who slalom between the gaps; and they include texts that themselves articulate recalcitrance. Interest in this sub-genre has clearly broadened from the shallow definition of characters refusing to adhere to norms. In the realm of representation, exploration and deployment, markers of bad behavior like theft, graft, alcoholism, drug addiction,
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